Know this Simak book?

[AE35Unit]

Some years ago when I lived in the midlands I came across a book in my then local library by Clifford D Simak. I'm sure it was a collection of stories and one of them contained the words "he watched as the chair he was sat on slowly picked itself apart" or something similar-I think it was used as blurb on the back of the book.

 

[Omphalos]

Scroll down and look at the Collections section. Maybe one of the titles looks familiar. I think if you click on the links it will tell you if the work has a variant title.

Clifford D. Simak - Summary Bibliography

 

[AE35Unit]

Scroll down and look at the Collections section. Maybe one of the titles looks familiar. I think if you click on the links it will tell you if the work has a variant title.

Clifford D. Simak - Summary Bibliography

Thanks Om. Unfortunately it could be any of those collections. Could use a site with book covers. Hmmm I wonder if a look on fantastic fiction would help…

 

[dask]

Checked all my Simak books, even the novels (he doesn't seem to have all that many short story collections) and couldn't find any such blurb. Even checked the first sentence of each story (that would make a first sentence Ron Goulart would die for), but no luck. Sorry. Sounds like a story worth reading.

 

[Omphalos]

Just googled this.

Clifford Simak Fan Site: Cover Art

Certainly looks thorough.

 

[dask]

Checked it out. Simak wrote westerns? Cool! Like to find some of them.

 

[AE35Unit]

Found it!
I remembered I had a site bookmarked (ISFDB) that shows all covers of a certain book. So I went looking and Bingo!
The collection is called So Bright the Vision.
Now to hunt down a copy

Publication: So Bright the Vision

www.isfdb.org

 

[Danny McG]

There you go, you've wondered for 14 years and you had it in hand all that time.

 

[AE35Unit]

There you go, you've wondered for 14 years and you had it in hand all that time.

14 years, crikey...

 

[dask]

According to my post above from 2009 I checked my Simak collection and couldn’t find the story but oddly enough I do have the book you were looking for. Here’s my copy:

 

[AE35Unit]

Nice